What’s New? Support controller methods not exposed through WSME, for mixed use cases.

I just finished reading The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner. It’s a history of Bell Labs and its impact on modern technology. I love these sorts of books, that talk about engineers and scientists solving problems and discovering how the world works. Gertner’s writing moves along at a nice steady pace, and he tells the stories with a good balance of scientific detail – not so much that you need a physics degree, but enough that you understand the difficulty and significance of the work.

What’s New In This Release? Fix a bug in ShellFormatter’s escaping of double quotes in strings Remove PrettyTable from documentation requirements add doc requirements to venv

What’s New In This Release? Add max-width support for table formatter Add value only output formatter Fix doc build with Python 2.6.x Fix interactive mode with command line args Escape double quotes in shell formatter Rename private attribute to avoid conflict Sync with OpenStack’s global requirements Add integration tests with known consumers Make the formatters a private part of the command

What’s New? Only log errors from loading plugins if no error handler callback is provided.

What’s New in This Release? Improve Python 3 support Clean up packaging using pbr redefine cog to allow it to run on specific input file(s)

What’s New? Fix formatting issue for docstrings without parameter list

I was interviewed by Jason Hibbets of Red Hat about the OpenStack Oslo Program for an article on opensource.com that was posted today. The interview happened while I was updating my recent blog post, The Intersection of the OpenStack and Python Communities, and some of the same themes come through. Besides reducing duplication of effort (and code) I have also been thinking a great deal lately about the importance of consistency when working with such a large contributor base (over 1000 developers from more than 100 companies for the Icehouse release according to stackalytics.

Last December I presented on the relationship between the OpenStack community and the broader Python community.

What’s New? Remove the trailing slash from the end of the URLs, as it results in misleading feature documentation, see Ceilometer bug #1202744.